Azure Migration Center

Azure is the only hybrid cloud to help you with cost-effective, flexible cloud migration paths. Get all the tools and resources you need to migrate your apps, data and infrastructure at your own pace, with confidence.

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Cost savings

Reduce your infrastructure costs with free extended security updates, the Azure Hybrid Benefit, and optimized infrastructure. Save up to $750,000 when you move one hundred 2008 servers to Azure from your on-premises datacenter. It would cost five times more to run Windows Server in AWS.

Flexible and cost-effective cloud migration

Save before, during and after migration

Use free assessment, migration and cost management tools as you migrate to Azure. Also pay less with Azure. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is five times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server. Learn more about the cost savings.

Azure gives you a flexible cloud migration path with consistency across your on-premises and cloud assets. Whether your business requires a hybrid state long term or only during the migration period, Azure can support your migration. Learn about hybrid cloud.

Azure is a great hybrid cloud enabler. We can move some applications to the cloud and leave others running at Smithfield facilities while providing consistent authentication wherever applications run.

We don't want to be in the datacenter business; we're in the thread business. We plan to move 90 percent of our global datacenter infrastructure into Azure, and we're at about 75 percent now. The only things we'll leave on-site are a few domain controllers and file/print servers.

Richard Cammish, Chief Information Officer

Migrate and modernise with cloud migration strategies

Use a range of cloud migration and modernisation strategies to meet your business needs – from rehosting your app with minimal code changes to building new apps in the cloud. Learn how to select the right strategy.